Norms defined by institutions and enforced by organizations have been put forward as a mechanism to increase the efficiency and reliability of electronic transactions carried out ...
In PLT Scheme, programs consist of modules with contracts. The latter describe the inputs and outputs of functions and objects via predicates. A run-time system enforces these pre...
Philippe Meunier, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias F...
Although researchers have been exchanging ideas on the design and development of autonomic systems, there has been little emphasis on validation. In an effort to stimulate interes...
Alain E. Ramirez, Barbara Quinones-Morales, Tariq ...
Many strategies have been proposed to address the problems associated with managing increasingly complex computing systems. IBM's Autonomic Computing (AC) paradigm is one suc...
The Java programming language requires that out-of-bounds array accesses produce runtime exceptions. In general, this requires a dynamic bounds check each time an array element is...
David Niedzielski, Jeffery von Ronne, Andreas Gamp...